As Zohran Mamdani ascends New York politics, liberal Zionists are helping pave the way – Mondoweiss

When Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic nomination for NYC mayor last month, I thought it was the end of liberal Zionism—the faction that insists that Israel is a “democratic” Jewish state. Having long acted as gatekeepers to keep anti-Zionist ideas from entering the mainstream discourse, liberal Zionism was at last exposed and discredited by the emergence of a movement for equal rights that delivered at the polls. 

I was wrong: the Mamdani election is, in fact, a moment for…